The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has had for
long time a woman suffrage novel in hand,
and it is to be hoped that her insomnia will
some time let her finish it.
1t is one OF Ella Wheeler Wilcoxs whims
to wear nothing but white indoors. Usually
it is some sort of a white satin Kate
Greenaway robe, high necked and long
sleeved in the morning, short sleeves and
square neck at night.
Lucy Larcom and Whittier have a good
deal of liking for each others society, and it
happens now and then that the Quaker poet
leaves his retreat at Oak Knoll, Danvers,
Mass, where he spends more Of his time of
late years than at Amesbury, to make one
of his rare trips to the village, meeting
Miss Lalcom at the house of a common
friend There under the 'gambrel roof
that Miss LarcOm mas COmmemorated in
sprightly verse the two hold communion,
while the practical villagers passing out
side irreverently grinble not little at
Whittiers inveterate habit of tying his
horse and leaving him standing across the
sidewalk
MAY IN NEW YORK
The month of May, when poets sing of
roses and meadows decked with green, is, in
the vicinity of New York, the fitting time
for half the worid-or has been. Fortunes
are changing and even the May moving
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ing way before the inconoclsstic spirit OF
the age Enough, and more than enough of
it, is left, however. The removals OF the
great annual tlitting time, often useless,
often undertaken without other reason than
restleSsness 50 peculiar to American life,
must cost the people of New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City, directly and in
directly, not less than $S,000,000 in actual
money outlay, to say nothing of personal
n-t nj atl a,,rll
train of discomfortS and disorders. 1t
means a clear months comfort gone out OF
the year in preparing for the move and get
ting over it, is the direct cause of broken
furniture not little, of wrecked tempers
by the thousands and of much actual suf-
fering.
But moving day is not what it used to be.
People who move in spring are beginning TO
discount It by removing at any time during
the hitter part of April, So that the first of
May no longer resembles the flag end of II
furniture dealers nightmare so much as IL
did. The real estate agents, too, have con
spired against moving day Not that the
agents want people Ia stay where they are
and forswear change. BY no means The
more removals the more commissions for the
agents. IL is to increase their own profits
and those of the owners that such strenuous
efforts have been made, and with much sue
cess, to substitute October for May as the
moving time. Many landlords now let
houses from October 10 October, and more
are anxious To do SO. The reason is that a
good many people of moderate means
whose only hope of getting wives and ba-
bies into the country for tine summer is to
stop paying rent have been in the habit of
giving up their hous IS on May |. storing the
furniture, packing off the family and seek
ing board until October, when the city resi-
dence could be safely resumed in another
quarter. This arrangement was fine for the
tenants, but il was bad for the owners and
agents, consequently IL had to be stopped
And il is being stopped.
DEATHS AMONG CITY BABIES.
wonder II it has occurred to the advo-
Gates of October leases that if they could
have things quite their own way they would
increase the annual number of deaths
among city babies by some hundreds. Ii
anything can be definitely established by
experience. that the city air during the hot
months is fatal 10 children under years old
is 50 established In the three cities named
over GOO children sometimes die in single
week OF very hot Observation-Disclosures more
than IN spring or autumn, thousands more
IN the course of the season than would die IL
all the babies could be taken out Of the city